- the founder of the Ming dynasty was a peasant
- There leader was constantly worried about conspiracies about him, so who ever was thought that they where ploting againts him was killed
- economically their ruler lacked the vision to push trade
- Hongwu (their ruler) wanted to control all aspects of government so that no other group could gain enough power to overthrow him.
- money was a problem from the begining with the Ming Dynasty.
- Hongwu (their ruler) did not understand inflation and gave out so much paper money as rewards that by 1425 A.D. the currency was worth 1/70 of its original value. This led to a return to the use of copper coins.
- The government did not make enough coins and counterfeiting became a problem. At this point, the provinces were required to mint their own coins.
- some of them added lead to the coins, which depleted their value.
- Due to the abundance of counterfeit coins, their value deceased again.
- used violence to solve most of their problems
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